Friday - We are staying at a Harvest Host in Nevada, MO, for tonight. We ran the generator with the A/C running and the generator would shut down after a while putting all of the loads on the battery. I had the refrigerator running on AC since we had the generator running but that would increase the load above the 2000VA of the inverter. That could be the problem. I'm participating in a test session right now so I didn't want to play with the generator at this time.
The StarLink antenna is sitting on a plastic box and just aimed up through the ceiling of the RV. It is showing that it’s “obstructed” but it’s still working great. SpeedTest shows 220Mbps down and 28Mbps up with no outages over 2sec in the last hour. Zoom worked great.
Later - I made dinner using the Instant Pot off of batteries and it worked fine. Starting the A/C on low cool caused the inverter to overload and shut down. It behaves the same with the generator running. On the same forum where I picked up the settings, someone mentioned that theirs did the same thing. After installing a SoftStart on the A/C, it worked. That seems like an expensive fix. But, if we want to boondock and need the A/C, then we may need to give it a shot.
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